The National Biography Award Shortlist 2017

Some readers love biography due to some fascinating personal stories or experience one can related to or just want to find someone and something really inspiring. Now we have a shortlist for the National Biography Award selected from 71 titles which should give some comfort for biography readers. Continue reading

Read: How to Make Healthy Normal

Make Healthy Normal kicks off from today for an entire July at our library. It’s an initiative by four Western Sydney libraries in partnership with Western Sydney Local Health District. We’d like to promote healthy eating and active living. Small steps can make a big difference to your health, eg, choose smaller portions and less kilojoules, eat more fruit and veg, be active every day, make water your drink and sit less move more.

Health & Wellbeing subject zone is the most popular read in the Library, so is Cooking zone. Here is a list of those books that will help you to make healthy normal. Books that written for kids that will encourage them to eat fruit & veg. Continue reading

The Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlist 2017

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is Australia’s most prestigious literature prize and it reaches its 60 years mark this year.

This year the award shortlist has been decided. You can go to our library catalogue to reserve a copy for yourself.

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Ditmar Awards 2017 winners

The winners of the 2017 Ditmar Awards for Australian science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing were announced at the 56th Australian National Science Fiction Convention Continuum 13 in Melbourne.

Here are something for Aussie Sci-Fi fans.

Best novel

The Grief Hole (Kaaron Warren, IFWG)

Best novella or novelette

‘Did We Break the End of the World?’ (Tansy Rayner Roberts in Defying Doomsday, Twelfth Planet Press) Continue reading